Should republicans abandon Rush Limbaugh?

[soulflower]

Conservative MSNBC host, SE Cupp has been getting attacked by the right-wing blogesphere for calling out Rush Limbaugh even though she's right:

"[T]he impulse to defend anything and everything that a party heavyweight says — to the death — has the deleterious effect of making conservatives seem irrational and herd-like," she writes in her column for the New York Daily News. "No one is right all the time, and no one is above reproach."

"[C]onservatives continue to view criticism (even the constructive kind) through a lens of ideological suspicion," Cupp goes on to write. "Even though I defended conservative principles as right, strong and popular, and explicitly said this isn’t about casting strident conservatives out of the party but reworking our messaging, Rush’s fans still decided that my conservatism was discredited. Disagreeing with him, or merely offering that we should feel comfortable disagreeing with party leaders now and then, suddenly made me an untrustworthy, sell-out liberal."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/...le-157299.html

Here's a perfect example of why Republicans can't get ahead. They're going after a young, female republican media personality for offending a guy who's an obstacle to them gaining favor with Americans who aren't old white guys.

[Fang]

No more than you guys should abandon Chris Mattews or any other worthless leftist commentator.

However, I don't listen to Rush so maybe I shouldn't comment.

[bullmikey]

What exactly would they be abandoining? He's an entertainment mouthpiece. He's not running for any office. Do you mean should conservatives stop listening to him? Maybe. But that would be up to them, not some chattering entertainment mouthpiece at a rival network. Don't you think?

[Cameron]

NO.

Who else is gonna love 'em like Rush?

He's their Daddy.

[soulflower]

No more than you guys should abandon Chris Mattews or any other worthless leftist commentator.

However, I don't listen to Rush so maybe I shouldn't comment.

Democrats have never called Chris Matthews their "leader"


It was the House Republicans who made Limbaugh an honorary member of their caucus and gave him credit for the GOP takeover of Congress in 1994.

It was the leaders of the conservative movement who embraced Limbaugh's far-right agenda, marginalizing themselves with ill-considered and unpopular - though Rush-approved - stances on nearly every significant issue that has come up over the past two decades.

It was Dick Cheney and other prominent Republicans who chose to enhance Limbaugh's stature by appearing regularly on his radio program.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2009/01...ressman/147055

[Cameron]

Kenny Boy Who? :

[BiggSeth]

rush is an entertainer....

like BEEouncEE, JayZEEE, moochelle, or soledad o'brein.

you want all of them to be abandoned too?

[Grindelwald]

However, I don't listen to Rush so maybe I shouldn't comment.

Maybe the most sensible thing you've ever said.

[soulflower]

rush is an entertainer....

like BEEouncEE, JayZEEE, moochelle, or soledad o'brein.

you want all of them to be abandoned too?

I don't know anyone who wants to hear Beyonce's opinions on politics

[NCBirdfan]

rush is an entertainer....

like BEEouncEE, JayZEEE, moochelle, or soledad o'brein.

you want all of them to be abandoned too?

He is also a coward and a drug addict, but the GOP loves him and worships him. If the Republicans truly want to win back voters they need to take a different approach that isn't created by some blowhard on the radio. They might even get my vote again if they do. I am not holding my breath though.

[pickles]

Didn't Rush just say he was "ashamed of his country?"

Actually, I know he just did. It was news.

So I'm sure all the people who attack Michelle Obama for saying something that could be twisted into that, will be here to attack ol' Rush, any second.

Let's see how long it takes.

[dialtone]

rush is an entertainer....

like BEEouncEE, JayZEEE, moochelle, or soledad o'brein.

you want all of them to be abandoned too?

Awwwwwwwww, it's ok.

[dialtone]

I don't know anyone who wants to hear Beyonce's opinions on politics

I don't recall any political representatives having to apologize to her for their views either.

[Creekman]

Rush is the Republican Party. I don't know why anyone would suggest tat he

should shut up or go away. He is like Will Rogers was to the Democrat Party

back in the '30s. He will be long remembered and I wouldn't be surprised to see

him beatified by the party faithful.

[Brohan]

Democrats have never called Chris Matthews their "leader"


It was the House Republicans who made Limbaugh an honorary member of their caucus and gave him credit for the GOP takeover of Congress in 1994.

It was the leaders of the conservative movement who embraced Limbaugh's far-right agenda, marginalizing themselves with ill-considered and unpopular - though Rush-approved - stances on nearly every significant issue that has come up over the past two decades.

It was Dick Cheney and other prominent Republicans who chose to enhance Limbaugh's stature by appearing regularly on his radio program.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2009/01...ressman/147055

1994? That's like 4 obama/corzine histically pathetic recoveries ago.

[soulflower]

1994? That's like 4 obama/corzine histically pathetic recoveries ago.

Yet the GOP is still talking and behaving like it's 1994 still...

[zenwalk]

Rush is and always has been the Tokyo Rose of the Right. Can't blame him though. Once stupid always stupid seems to be the Right's motto considering his advice landed the party in the crapper, landed the country in the worst economic crash in human history, got us George Bush and the Iraq war. He's an aged whore servicing every discredited bankrupt philosophy of the past 20 plus years. I'm surprised he's still around but I guess the Bush years weren't enough of an in-you-face lesson for some here.

[Calamari]

I think they should cling to Limbaugh with as much as, or more fervor than they already do. He's a symbol of everything that logically results from their flawed and corrupt ideals.

[banner1124]

No more than you guys should abandon Chris Mattews or any other worthless leftist commentator.

However, I don't listen to Rush so maybe I shouldn't comment.

Those two aren't even close to being on the same level

[ODENTON]

Rove or Rush, who would win in a fist fight. I'll go with rush, after a few jars of pills he'll think he's superman.